with predictable result.

The internet has been broken all day, I could not get anything done!

That is one of over six thousand comments from Clientcopia, a storehouse of tales about clueless clients. Some will cause mental images of customers you have known.

You Tube is either down this morning or they have finally decided to bar me for the poor quality videos I have uploaded of late. I don't even see the embedded videos here at KV or over at The Home.

If the servers are truly down, should we get a cold compress and head over to Astonishingly Nine's place?

My little Miss Heidi died this morning. She had a cancer that had started in her injured leg and spread rapidly.

I want to thank the many friends who have expressed wishes for her recovery.

Her pain is over. Gino and I are going to the park now.

Democrats must lead the way in efforts to slow waste, and what better way than to recycle these.

By rotating your left-over campaign button a mere 180° a whole new statement can be made and you are recycling a precious natural resource.

Discovery Channel is starting a new season of Deadliest Catch tonight. I'll never bitch about the cost of Alaskan King Crab ever again.

I don't always watch it and when I do it's on the little TV in the office, but I bet I'd need a change of clothes if I saw it in HD on a big screen.

Trivia:

A mixture of Crown Royal, Kalua, and Baileys makes a ___________.

Traffic along Weaver Road resembled a Cades Cove bearjam earlier today as Tamara's turkeys were parading around in other parts of the neighborhood. There were about ten hens and four toms spotted just outside my office window. They had been in the neighbor's orchard across the road about an hour earlier.

More pics after the break.

I just got back from Cape Cod again (via Internet, of course). A couple of weeks ago I found this site, a group of bloggers and small town newspapers around the bay.

I can't stay away. I've discovered that:

For almost 300 years, the town of Chatham, Mass., could rely on a year-round supply of cod. None have been caught there since January.

John Quincy Adams skinny dipped regularly in the Potomac during his administration. Once he had been dodging a reporter who wanted to interview him about the National Bank. She waited outside the White House one morning and watched him as he went to the river and undressed. When he entered the water she sat on his clothes and bargained for an interview as he stood waist deep in the freezing water. Oh, to have GWB in such a waterballing predicament.

Christy's has 1% milk for $2.99 a gallon.

I got a recipe for elderberry pie.

And this from Cheap Eats:

Life is too cheap for short wine...

Would you like to expand your classical music library or learn more about a favorite composer? Would you just like to listen to a classical music stream as you work at your desktop?

Try Classical Music Archives.

Today is the birthday of Eugene McCarthy.

Obviously the video is somewhat dated.

From today's The Writer's Almanac:

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important." - Eugene McCarthy

I managed to snatch these from the KNS front page while they were still hot.

They're gone now.

I couldn't find credit for the photographer. David Keim wrote the story and hopefully got to sample the 'evidence'.

I had to send a link to my cousin in Corpus Christi. He is a retired KCSD officer and gets a bit irritated about donut jokes.

Is it not time to mandate the carrying of concealed firearms by the clergy? A properly armed preacher could have nipped this attempted pastorcide in the bud.

We listened in horror Wednesday evening as scanner traffic revealed the news. A woman was being brought into the UT ER from a car crash that occurred as she ran from a shooting at her church, a shooting that appears to be caused by a glitch in the sanctity of marriage.

The name of the church rang a bell (no pun intended) here at The Home . This is the same church that posted the signs a couple of years ago assuring us that Pope John Paul II was "hell-bound."

"What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax. Sweet old lady, I can see her now carrying the laundry home on her head." - W. C. Fields

I got another magnificent early birthday present today as well, a boxed CD set of all nine Beethoven symphonies by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of his 100th birthday.

The recordings are not new, I have them on Deutsche Grammophon cassettes dated 1963.

It is said that Sony and Philips engineers developed the CD with the goal of an uninterrupted performance of the Ninth. Now a fifty-dollar iPod the size of a wrist watch will hold all of them with room to spare.

And just as Miss Scarlet had trouble with the Tarleton twins, I'll be awake all night trying to decide just which one is the handsomest.

CBS 60 Minutes ran their story last night about the alleged political persecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The Bush Administration had pressured CBS to kill it. Residents of Huntsville, Alabama, missed it completely.

WHNT-TV apologized and blamed the dark screen on a "techincal (sic) problem with CBS out of New York." CBS News denies any such problem.

WHNT is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners. Oak Hill is owned by the Bass Brothers, 'Pioneer Level' fund raisers for both Bush campaigns.

In related news, Pakistan has blocked access to You Tube. One or more videos on the site were deemed blasphemous.

Some time ago David Silver started adding a photo to his Flickr page for each public figure who left in order to spend more time with his or her family. The photo set, titled simply 'Gone', is growing in kudzu-like proportions.

This week Rep. Rick Renzi (R- AZ) begins his trip to Gone.

There is a prize if you can name them all.

Did you see how much Mr. Bush is appreciated in Africa? I guess we should be ashamed of ourselves. According to the Washington Post they have named a road after him in Ghana and declared a George Bush Day in Benin.

Leno even did a live remote interview with him from Liberia on the Tonight Show. He said that he was particularly thrilled to be visiting there since "Laura used to be a Liberian."*

Of course they have good reasons to love him. He has pledged a bunch of money for their low-income health care, he has yet to send their young adults off on a crusade to maintain the cost of oil, and he will leave their shores in less than a week.

*Steve Bridges makes a great GWB.

Occasionally I go to the Firefox Extensions site to see what goodies I can add to my favorite browser.

During today's visit I came across one called Access Flickr developed by Hamed Saber who writes:

In my country (Iran), unfortunately, the flickr.com is banned. I'm a fan of that photo-archive website, so I wrote this extension just to help my dear friends who can not access flickr.com from Iran.

According to the description the extension

Bypasses the flickr.com filter in Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and other banned countries and places...

Fortunately we don't need to download this (yet) but what is to keep these governments from just banning access to Firefox Extensions?

According to Friday's Morning Edition we may be in for another British invasion. Judging by the samples online, it is way overdue.

Listen to Duffy here.

Daryl Cagle offers a series entitled "Where's My Check" from the nation's leading political cartoonists on the subject of our upcoming windfall.

Ovation TV (DirecTV channel 274) began an eight-hour marathon showing of a BBC documentary called The Genius of Photography today at Noon. I missed the start of it but it is scheduled to be repeated beginning tonight at eight and I shall have it in the can.

but we would have to build 8003 more bridges to make No. 1.

The Federal Highway Administration* has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required. While most states don't use this loophole, calling it unsafe, others drive a truck through it.

MSNBC posted the results of a nationwide survey that found Tennessee among the top states for bridge inspections.

Channel 10 reported today that we were one of only four states with a perfect inspection record, that is every bridge gets inspected every two years.

These people have about a gazillion free podcasts including a daily news update, each guaranteed to annoy your wingnutter friends. Of course you can also enjoy them on your computer.

Morning Edition reported today that BushCo is negotiating a treaty with the Iraqis that is not a really treaty since they don't want the irksome task of trying to get it approved by the Senate.

It will be just as binding on future presidents but administration lawyers are typically wordsmithing a stealthy name for it. They want to commit US troops to the long-term occupation of Iraq with the least amount of unpleasantness at home.

It's not a treaty, it's an Enduring Relationship?

Can't we please impeach Clouseau before he destroys the world?

CNN is displaying a Breaking News banner. They confirm that Ole Fred has thrown in the towel.

From KNS

Last night Congressman Robert Wexler (D- FL), addressed the House on the case to impeach Darth Cheney.

A short video is available here at his web site.

William Henry Bonser Lamin was born in Awsworth Notts, Derbyshire, England in 1887. He fought in the 9th Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment during World War I and sent many letters home documenting his experiences.

Now those letters are being published in the form of a blog. Each is being posted exactly ninety years after it was written.

Memo to Flock:

Buy just three shares of Microsoft. Donate one to the church (through the AGN Financial Network). We will then use our newfound stockholder clout to thwart the evil giant's penchant for enabling the ungodly.

"We're not trying to hurt Microsoft or their shareholders, nor are we calling for a boycott of their products," volunteer spokesman Dennis Sullivan said. "We are trying to get Christians to buy their shares."

No I guess you wouldn't want to hurt Microsoft. Not if you own enough shares to influence policy.

It won't be long now until this.

All the happiness of the season to the KnoxViews family.

Two headlines of interest today:

Bush Says Drug Policy Working

Bush: 'I Doubt I'd Be Standing Here If I Hadn't Quit Drinking Whiskey'

The latest mad shooter was felled by an armed security guard at the megachurch in Colorado Springs founded by the Rev. Ted Haggar. Her swift action was lauded for possibly saving many more lives.

I suppose it just makes sense to have security services when dealing with crowd control in such a large business church but what a creepy feeling to think about it.

From the new church bulletin:

Worshippers should plan to arrive at least two hours before morning services.

Golden Pass Holders (with implanted microchips) may proceed through portal B.

Or maybe Garrison Keillor had the answer a few years ago with a plan to let you worship from the safety of your own home.

Lutherans on Line (opens in Real Player)